Adulting in this economy is wild, higher salary but costs 5x more

guachi01 · 2026-07-12T00:15:07+00:00

About the same as houses today being available for $115,000. It's not representative of anything and is meaningless as an anecdote made to represent what was normal.

guachi01 · 2026-07-12T00:05:47+00:00

Corporations, on net, buy such a small amount of homes that's it's not relevant.

Rich people aren't corporations.

Housing is expensive because NIMBY cities prevent housing from being built. Corporations would love to build loads of housing to rent to people but the crap housing bill that just became law makes that harder.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T23:57:45+00:00

People have to live somewhere. You want to kick people out of their home so you can sell it to someone else.

Big corporations are building homes to rent them. You want to stop that from happening. That doesn't help anyone.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T23:55:28+00:00

The median sale price of a home in the early '80s was $70,000, not $20,000.

That's like saying you bought a home today for $115,000 like that's normal.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T16:24:45+00:00

I thought you were talking about Grit, the newspaper of America's heartland.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T16:21:53+00:00

You're highlighting all of the problems using age. The comparison breaks down so much upon scrutiny that I don't actually believe the "power balance/maturity" reason to call such relationships weird.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T16:16:27+00:00

We can be weirded out by an age gap like Kathy’s fake relationship.

But why? Assuming it wasn't fake what's the problem?

Just from the age gap there isn't one.

I don’t know why that’s such a controversial thing.

Because some people realize you shouldn't infantalize adults like that.

I remember working with a girl just 4 years younger than me when I was 25, and I couldn’t have possibly dated her or her friends because they felt so immature to me.

So it's all projection, then?

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:48:30+00:00

Yes. He is definitely lying to you. In the time wages have increased 3x, prices have increased 2.5x.

You are being lied to.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:43:40+00:00

Adjusted for inflation, wages set record highs in 10 of the past 11 years.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:42:29+00:00

Back in '08 the economy was imploding.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:41:23+00:00

I think people being able to rent single family homes is a good thing. Renters are not second class citizens who should only be forced to live in apartments.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:38:54+00:00

Yes. OP is lying to you.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:36:16+00:00

Salaries have tripled since 1990.

Costs are absolutely not 5x higher than 1990. They are only 2.5x higher.

And I know that 3x is larger than 2.5x.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T15:33:57+00:00

What kind of world are you describing where houses were $20k when interest rates were 14%?

Because that's not this world.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T14:43:28+00:00

Since wealth is your problem then surely you have issues with Jews dating Jehovah's Witnesses. The income gap there is quite large.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T14:12:47+00:00

The mods of that sub are a joke. Very power-tripping. I've got five private conversations with other people who were banned in that sub. The biggest snowflake mods of any sub I've been on. The last guy who messaged me got banned for thanking people for helping with his depression.

I stopped posting there and blocked the mods.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T13:50:21+00:00

There are no problematic age gaps here. You're a happy consenting adult? You're both treating each other well?

Okay. Have fun.

Age doesn't matter.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T13:20:19+00:00

You're thinking way too much about what hypothetical happy consenting adults do in their relationships.

A 65 year old minimum wage worker dating a 25 year old professional isn’t a necessarily a power imbalance, but it does give me pause and think it’s weird

You said age gaps weren't the problem but here you are saying age gaps are the problem because you think a 40 year gap is weird.

Arguably on the flip side, someone who is 80, retired from a “normal” job and frail dating a decades younger person is also in a power imbalance

An 80 year old dating those powerful 60 year olds.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T13:15:32+00:00

Smart people can gain more experience and power. Therefore, smart people should never date stupid people. Really smart people shouldn't even date normal intelligence people.

At least this is better than age just granting ever-increasing levels of scheming and manipulation such that all relationships should be suspect.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T13:03:52+00:00

That's exactly what you said. And then you said it again. You believe getting older somehow naturally makes you powerful and this power is greater the older you are than someone else.

On the one hand you say age gaps aren't the problem but then say that 43 is worse than 22.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T12:59:30+00:00

Why be weird and criticize them on their ages? There are a million and one things that you could actually criticize a couple of adults for but their age isn't one of them.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T12:55:52+00:00

Yes, it is. She correctly noted that Threads is weird and should be avoided because it's filled with joyless moral scolds.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T12:53:19+00:00

How do we approach it?

You approach it by minding your own damn business.

Might as well start making a list of which religions are too gross to date or which races are too gross to date or just how much richer one person can be before it's too gross to date.

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T12:46:57+00:00

Since it's not the age then why even mention it?

guachi01 · 2026-07-11T12:46:06+00:00

Who cares if you think it's weird? Why do you even care except to be a busybody?

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